Subject: 502 You Have No Permission to Speak

From: Mark Olson <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 22:59:51 -0800 (PST)

Good people,
Using Pine to subscribe to newsgroups always yields the following:

      502 You have no permission to speak.  Goodbye

This condition seemed to just start out of the blue. One day it worked,
the next day it didn't. The SA here says he doesn't know why, but
thought a version upgrade of Pine might help, which it did not.
The current version is 3.95
nntp-server = news.tlg.org

Does anyone have a clue what is amiss here?

thanks,
Mark Olson

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:37:47 +0800 (GMT)

> Does anyone have a clue what is amiss here?

	Sounds like the NNTP server you are try to talk to refuses
to speak to you.  This is generally a configuration on the server
side.  By any chance did you change the settings of your pinerc
file to point to a different NNTP than you normally connect with?

	Ed

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